Flash Gordon: Trapped on Mars

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IF YOU TOLD ME
WE'RE IN JORPAKi
OR ISRAEL, I'P
HAVE BELIEVEP

IT'

THE/ BROUGHT IN
WATER FRO/A THE
POLAR SEAS, PLANTED
TREES FOR MORE

OxySEN/

SURE IS PURTY/
BUT WH/ ARE
WE HERE? YOU
SEE ANY SIGHS
OF TROUBLE?

THIS 15 A PRIVATE
SHOWING WILLIE/
IT'S A FILM BASEP
ON MARTIAN ,
MEMORY TAPES/

JAM TUKME/CA,

keeper of
the valley of

7__^ treasures!

v

THE/ ARE/ BUT v THIS FILM

THE/ LEFT MEMORY IS BASEP ON

TAPES TELLIN6 US A THOSE TAPES/
A LOT ABOUT

THEM, WILLIE/

MEGE L/ES A WEALTH '"* BUT /T BELONGS (

OF WH/TE: ORE WWCH<n ONLY TO TNE
MOVES MOUNTAINS'

MY P£OPl£ARE *l^£ SO /NAT NO
CNOSEN TO CARE MORTAL MAY
FOR. TNIS TREASURE/ STEAL IT FROM
C« THEGOPS!

. ARE YOU
SURE THAT
MART/AN CHIEF
ISN'T REAL, SIR?

JUST AS PLA5H TOLV

YOU, HE'S AN ACTOR
RECREATING A
MARTIAN MEMORY
TAPE/

WEIL, HE'S
' SURE A
SOOP ACTOR...

...'CAUSE I COULP'VE

SWORN ti&s THE

SAME MARTIAN WHO
COMES TO LIFE IN
MY PREAMS/

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WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF
IT. WILLIE? THE TREASURE
OF WHITE OR£ IN THE
DESERT / PIP yOU PREAM
THAT TOO?

THAT'S SO AMAZING
SIR.' X NEVER
SAW THAT FILM
BEFORE - BUT I
KNEW ALL ABOUT
THAT TREASURE/

PLUTONIUM,
WE CALL IT...

I THINK/

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SURE IS
NICE TO MEE

YA, PROFESSC

THE PLUTONIUM IS VER/
REAL, MY SOW. WOULP

YOU LIKE ME TO TAKE
YOU TO SEE IT?

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GOSH .'

WOULP I /

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in

/ THIS, WILLIE, IS
THE SITE OF MY
PIS/

I HOPE

YOU'RE RIGHT,

PROFESSOR /

BUT YOU
SHOULD LEARM

NOT TO CORRECT

YOUR ELDERS/

I'M SORRY,
PROFESSOR
SCHMID, SIR/

YEAH, HE'S iT]
THE KID WHO'S \
SUPPOSED TO HAVE J
GREAT HUNCHES/ /

' NO CHANCE,
CACTUS/

YOU WANT TO BE
A PIRT-DK36ER
ALL YOUR LIFE,

BROCK eoy?

HOT PIS6ITY/
SURE.' IV KNOW
THE PLACE IF I
SAW IT AGAIN /

OF COURSE
NOT, WILLIE/

FLASH — IT'S HIM/
THE MARTIAN PRINCE

TUKMEKAf

YES/ YOUR THOUGHTS ARE FOR ,
W PEOPLE'S SACREP TREASURE/
THAT... MP NOT FRIENDSHIP..
BRINGS YOU HERE/

IT IS TRUE, J -^/7
STRANGERS, YOU M
COME IN SEARCH A

OF MY PEOPLE'S A
TREASURE? *J\

'/YES/ WE BELIEVEP
if IT HAP BEEN
\ ABANDONED.'

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IT IS TRUE/ MY
WORST YISIONS
ARE TO BECOME J

DPAI / * ^

THE- TREASURE \
WILL BE USED- ANP \
OUR NATION WILL" /
PERISH/ ^y^

YOU TOO, ARE
A PROPHET/ I
SENSE IT/ YOU
WILL HELP SAYE
My PEOPLE/

HuM?! )

...BUT ALL HUMAN

LIFE OH /MARS,
I'M AFRAIP/

THAT IS IN THE FUTURE/
WE CAN CHANGE THE

FUTURE/

HE CAN HELP ME ▼ BEFORE WE
LEARN WHAT WILL v JOIN THOSE
CAUSE MY PEOPLE'S WHO HAYE

POOM.' SO WE ^ SHARED THE

CAN SAVE THEM/ £1, GREAT SECRET/

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THESE ARE My ANCESTORS
..THOSE WHO HAVE SHAREP
THE SECRET OF THE
BURIEP TREASURE/

FOR CENTURIES, WE HAVE J THAT'S BHOUGH
LAIP UP TONS IN THE "* TO POWER TEN
COFFERS OF THE 60DS! J PI ANETS/ ,

INCREPIBLE/

LONG AS WE PO W
USE JT, THE (SOPS
WILL KEEP US
POWERFUL/

THE TUNNELS ANP
CHAMBERS SPREAP
THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN/
ALL FILLEP WITH
ELEMENT 94, FRIENP
GORPON ' J

>OU STORE
THAT GREAT
WEALTH OF
PLUTONIUM FOR
yOUR<SOPS?SURELy

THERE IS ENOUGH

FOR you TO USE

AS WELL/

f*g«t

/

/

AS )CU SHALL SEE/
FOR NOW THAT YOU
HAVE FOUNP WHAT
you CAME TO

Y^YOUMUST
REMAIN HERE
- FOR LIFE/

THE HARMON/ OF
NATURE/ PO THE
MOST WITH THE
LEAST USE OF POWER,

FRIENP FLASH/

LEST WE POLLUTE
WHAT NATURE
SAVE US... ANP,
IN THE ENP,
PERISH/

A SHAME I CAN'T
BRING THESE
LESSONS TO My

PEOPLE IN THE
FUTURE, TUKMEKA/
>OU HAVE A
BEAUTIFUL LIFE/

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/*£*%9

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DO NOT APPEAL ,
TO My SYMPATHY/
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE/
>OU MUST STAX

ANP FOR THAT...

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L*W

w >OU WILL NEB? A
WIFE/ PERHAPS

MY SISTER. THE
PRINCESS AMAHA,

WILL PLEASE YOU/

YOU ARE NOT YET
PROMISED PEAR SISTER/

FRIENP FLASH WILL
NEEP A WIFE'S COMPANY

IN HIS NEW LIFE HERE./

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VO YOU LIKE M/
SONG, NO0LE FLASH?

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1 / IT IS BEAUTIFUL. AS YOU
V ARE, PRINCESS AM AHA/
/ I APMIRE yOUR CIT)£ yoUR

6ENTLE LIFE

V HERE/
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BUT I
CANNOT
PRETENP... )

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I SEE A GREAT

EXPLOSION... A WAR,
TUKMEKA/ SOMEONE
PISCOVERS /OUR
HIPPEN TREASURE...
THE. PLUTONIUM ...

..ANP YOUR
PEOPLE. USE
THE PLUTONIUM
TO PESTROY
THEM/

YET YOU SAY
IT WILL ALL
PIE ONE- PAY-
ANP ALL MY,
RACE WITH IT/
HOWf/

I JUST
DON'T KNOW/

HONEST/ '

/^ I-I THINK I ,
[CAN, TUKMEkA/

CAN'T TELL/ SOME
TIME IN THE
FUTURE/

V THE WAR ONLY

KILLS SOME OF YOU
MARTIANS/ THEN COMES
POLLUTION... THEN
DISEASE...

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ALL BECAUSE
THE WHITE
ORE WAS OSEPf
JUST AS THE
SOPS WARNEP'

>'.y

I Iziy^WHBH I'M IN THE TOMB;
" ■ - ■' THE EXPLOSIVES WILL
BE SET OFF, LO/AL GENERAL
THE ENTIRE MOUNTAIN
IS TO BE SEALEP
FOREVER/

OUR GUESTS, FLASH ANP
yOUNG WILLIE HALL, HAVE THE
HONOR OF SHARING MY
ROYAL TOMB'

YOU SHALL SEE
TO THEIR ROBES,
PEAR SISTER/

BUT WHERETO
GO

HOME? HOW
DO WE PO

THAT?

I'M COUNTING Ot\

YOUR. MINP pomR TO

FINP THE SPOT WHERE
WE JUMPEP IN TIME/

I DON'T KNOW, WILUE.O
BUT WE'RE 6UR£ /
STARTING ID FALL//

FOR FLASH/ /OU
HAVE HELPEP HIM
ESCAPE-, WITH TH£
SACREP SECRET
OF OUR. TREASURE/

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I SHALL TAKE

HIS PLACE IM

THE TOMB,

TUKMEKA.'

BESIPE YOU/

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NO, AMAHA i
IT WILL
NOT SAVE .
OUR, PEOPLE/

l—X.

YOU CM TURN RIGHT AROUNP
ANP LEAP OS BACK TO THE
TREASURE you FOUNP/

RIGHT OM, MISTER/

AND WE KNOW YOU

FOUND THOSE OLD

MARTIAN PLU10MUM

MINES '

7WS/JUS1 LIKE.
ONE. I SAW IN A
/VtARSPORT MUSEUM /

NOWSUPPOSIN'
YOU SHOW US
WHERE /OU DUG
UP THAT PIECE
OF MART/AN
JEWEL Ry/

WEOIAfT TAKE
yOU WHERE WE'VE

BEEN/ IT WAS
CENTURIES IN THE

PAST...

WE PON'T EVEN
KNOW HOW WE
SOT THERE/

OH, BEAUTIFUL/

ANP I'M A

GREAT &\G

POPO BIRP/

LOOK-A HERE. K7P/ WE
MEAN BUSINESS/ CUT
THE CLOWNING, HEAR?

r* +

I'M GOING
TO GET YOU
FOR THAT.

COWARD /

THE NAME'S CACTUS/ ANP
I AIN'T STARTEP YET/
NOW YOU GET (JS TO THAT
/HARTIAN MINE... STRAIGHT
AWAY... OR YOU ARE ONE
DEAP PUPE, HEAR?

THE EASY- GOING
"WORRYLESS WILLIE"
IS WORKING UP A RAGE

I % GONNA
USE IT.., ?/

MHf WHAT
HAPPENEP TO

IT?

WILLIE IS GETTING ANGRY..
AMP HIS MIND POWER SLIPS
INTO HIGH GEAR/

you BET we

WILL, KIP/

OKAV^ I'LL SHOW
YOU WHERE IT y

IS' y WILLIE

NO/

STA/ OUT OF ,
THIS, GORPOfJ/

HUSH/ I GOTTA
CONCENTRATE...
I GOTTA REALL/
CONCENTRATE '

AIR. CACTUS ANP MR. BROCK
YOU ARE ALMOST THERE-.

RK?HT NOW/

WHAT PIP yOU PO, WILLIE?
BROCK ANP CACTUS
HAVE PISA PPE ARE P/

1 JUST PUT
MY MINP POWER
TOGETHER WITH
THEIR WISHES... AM'
PUSHEP REAL-
HARP, FLASH/

.S

BROCK/ WHERE
IN HECK ARE
WE?

h

i port'T know; CACTUS!

BUT IT LOOKS LIKE

A pa rape is comno

THIS WAY'

.

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AfARTMAtS ?/

WHAT'S GOING OM
BROCK f

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MA/BE
SOMEBODY'S
MAKING A MOVIE,
CACTUS/

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WHILE THEY SLEEP CARRY
THEM TO MY TOMB/
THEy SHALL JOIN ME

IN ETERNAL VIGILANCE.'.,

HOW GO, 10 GENERAL f
SET THE CHARGE WHICH

WILL FOREVER SEAL

US FROM THE
WORL P/

youR

WILL IS
PONE,

PRINCE
TUKMEKA/

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Brock anp cactus have come k
enp of their rainbow... the fa8li
martian plutonium treasure/

FOR THE/ HAVE JUMPEP BACK ACROSS THE
CENTURIES/ JUST IN TIME TO JOIN TUKMEKA
AS HE SEALS HIMSELF ANP THE TREASURE
FROM A GREEPV WORLP/

BUT THEIR TIMING
IS BAP/

WHILE CENTURIES AHEAD I.M OUR
OWN TIME,..

HE PIP BURY
HIMSELF, WILLIE/

yUR- FLASH /ANP

THOSE TWO BULLIES,

CACTUS ANP BROCK.

KEPT HIM COMPANY'
BUT IT PIPN'T SAVE THE 1

MARTIAN RACE/

V

YOU CAN'T FINP IT
AWMORE, CAN YOU,

WILLIE?

NOPE /THE MARTIANS
MUST'VE BLASTEP .
POWN THE MOUNTAINS/
NONE OF THE LANPMARKS
ARE LEFT/

... ANP NO WAY TO PROVE TO PROFESSOR
SCH AW? THAT HE IS PISS INS IN
THE H#?£W& PlACEf

CRAZY PREAMS AGAIN .'

PUMP.' CRAZY? WA7£R

IN THIS PESERT?

YOU HAVE BEEN
TOO LONG IN THE
MARTIAN SUN/

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IMPOSSIBLE.'

HOW ? HOW
PJP HE
KNOW?

PON'T TAKE
IT SO HARP,
PROF/ IT'S

NOT
PLUTONIUM..,

..BUT YOU

HAVEN'T
COMPLETE!-"/

WASTE D THE
TAXPAYERS'

MOHBf/

ANP /OU, WILLIE CASEY, >/ 1
HAVE EARNEP A JOB WITH

THERE'S NO POUBT

.__ NOW THAT YOUR

THE SPECIAL *WILP TALENTS' ARE
CORPS/ K NO FLUKE/

GOSH, SIR/
TH- THANK

you, SIR/

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